Eighteen thousand horsepower from three GF6Cs take an AAR Lubrication Test Vehicle (measuring track friction) across the Murray River Bridge just west of Tumbler Ridge townsite.
A single GE cowl unit brings a southbound BC Rail freight around the big loop at Pavillion. The 2.2% downgrade from Kelly Lake to Lillooet is the longest on the railroad--and in the northwest.
A three-car British Columbia Railway RDC train has just arrived in Lillooet from North Vancouver late in the morning of a July day in 1978. The train is comprised of two RDC-3 railcars bracketing ... (more)